AFTER DONALD TRUMP RELEASED A SERIES OF TWEETS INDICATING THAT
TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO JOIN THE
MILITARY IN ANY CAPACITY, SURPRISINGLY A NUMBER OF
REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS SPOKE OUT AGAINST HIM.
LET ME GIVE YOU A
FEW EXAMPLES.
FIRST WE HAD -- LET'S GO TO, SORRY, GIVE ME ONE
SECOND -- LET'S GO TO JOHN MCCAIN.
THE FIRST SENATOR TO
SPEAK OUT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP WAS SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN --
>>ORRIN HATCH ALSO RELEASED A STATEMENT IN REGARD TO TRUMP'S
NEW POLICY, AND HE CRITICIZED IT.
HE SAID --
>>LET ME BE
CLEAR ABOUT SOMETHING, DONALD TRUMP TWEETED
WHAT HE DID WITHOUT EVEN ADVISING OR COMMUNICATING WITH
THE PENTAGON.
WHEN THE PENTAGON WAS ASKED WHAT DOES THIS MEAN,
HOW WILL YOU MOVE FORWARD, OFFICIALS ESSENTIALLY SAID, UH,
YOU NEED TO ASK THE WHITE HOUSE.
HOWEVER THEY LATER RELEASED A
STATEMENT SAYING --
>>WHAT THAT MEANS IS THE NEW GUIDANCE PROVIDED BY THE
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN A TWEET THIS MORNING WE DIDN'T HEAR
ABOUT, THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE.
THIS ORANGE
BUFFOON DOESN'T KNOW HOW THE GOVERNMENT WORKS, DOESN'T KNOW
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, SO HE'S
LIKE, WHY DON'T I JUST CHANGE POLICY WITH A TWEET?
AND THE
PENTAGON IS LIKE, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, WE HAVE TO TRY TO FIGURE
OUT WHAT HE MEANT AND THEN IMPLEMENT POLICY.
YOU
KNUCKLEHEAD, NORMAL, INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEINGS WHO HAVE HELD THIS
POST BEFORE, WHETHER THEY ARE RIGHT OR LEFT WING, ACTUALLY
THINK THROUGH THE PROCESS RATHER THAN I GOT UP THIS MORNING AND I
WAS SO UPSET ABOUT RUSSIA AND THE INVESTIGATIONS THAT I
TWEETED TO DISTRACT PEOPLE.
AND TO GET MY LOATHSOME BASE TO RUSH
OVER AND HATE TRANS PEOPLE AND HENCE COME TO MY DEFENSE.
FUNNY
ENOUGH, EVEN WITH REPUBLICAN SENATORS IT DIDN'T WORK.
THEY
ALL HAVEN'T WEIGHED IN ON THIS, BUT IN THE PAST THESE SENATORS
HAVE NOT BEEN IN FAVOR OF LGBT RIGHTS.
THEY ARE NOW, I'M A
LITTLE CONFLICTED ON IT, BECAUSE ON THE ONE HAND THERE ARE NOW
WEALTHY LGBT MEMBERS OF THE NATION WHO ARE ALSO DONATING TO
REPUBLICANS -- PETER THIEL GAVE A LOT OF MONEY TO REPUBLICANS
AND HE HAPPENS TO BE A GAY LIBERTARIAN.
ALL OF A SUDDEN THE
REPUBLICAN POSITION ON GAY RIGHTS IS SOFTENING A BIT.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I WILL TAKE IT.
GREAT.
YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
>>YOU CAN BUY A POLITICIAN TO DO AND SAY ANYTHING.
>>HOW MANY YEARS HAVE I BEEN TELLING YOU THAT WE WILL WIN ON
GAY RIGHTS?
YOU KNOW WHY?
IT'S THE ONE ISSUE WHERE WE HAVE MORE
DONORS THAN THEY DO.
WE'VE EVEN GOT ORRIN HATCH AND RICHARD
SHELBY FROM ALABAMA TO TURN AROUND AND SAY I CAN'T BELIEVE
THEY ARE DOING THIS TO THE TRANS COMMUNITY.
RICHARD SHELBY?
>>I LIKE THAT YOU BROUGHT RICHARD SHELBY UP, HE DID GO ON
CABLE NEWS AND TALKED ABOUT THIS, AND IT PERFECTLY SHOWS
YOU, ILLUSTRATES HOW HALFHEARTED HE IS IN HIS SUPPORT FOR THE
TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY.
>>IS THIS A MOVE THAT YOU SUPPORT FROM A PRESIDENT WHO
VOWED TO SUPPORT THE LGBT COMMUNITY MORE THAN HILLARY
CLINTON DURING THE CAMPAIGN?
>>THAT WOULD BE A REVERSAL OF THE CURRENT POLICY, THE CURRENT
POLICY IS A BIG TENT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SERVE.
YOU HAVE TO
REMEMBER, OUR MILITARY FORCES IS A VOLUNTEER FORCE.
I WILL HAVE
TO SEE WHAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAID, READ HIS TWEET, AND GO FROM
THERE.
>>ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THE 4000 TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, OR UP
TO 6000 BASED ON WHAT RAND SAYS, SERVING IN THE MILITARY NOW,
WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM?
>>I THINK YOU OUGHT TO TREAT EVERYONE FAIRLY AND GIVE
EVERYONE A CHANCE TO SERVE.
>>HOW DID YOU NOT READ THE TWEETS BEFORE GOING ON CNN TO
TALK ABOUT THE TOPIC?
>>HE DOESN'T WANT TO PISS OFF HIS BASE OR HIS DONORS, THAT'S
WHY YOU GET THAT ANSWER.
BUT THAT'S A BETTER ANSWER THEN YOU
WOULD GET FROM RICHARD SHALL BE IN THE PAST, A CONSERVATIVE
SENATOR FROM ALABAMA.
WE WON ON THIS ISSUE.
THIS IS A BLIP, IT'S
DISTRACTING US, AS INTENDED, IT'S HATEFUL, IT'S STEVE BANNON
101, AND TRUMP IS THE ONE WHO MADE THE DECISION, BUT THEY ARE
SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE OF HISTORY AND THERE IS NO WAY THEY
WILL WIN ON THIS ISSUE.
IF YOU HAVE RICHARD SHELBY SAYING
EVERYONE SHOULD SERVE, WE ALREADY WON.
SO IT'S TERRIBLE
FOR ANOTHER COUPLE OF YEARS, BUT I GUARANTEE YOU THAT THIS WILL
GET OVERTURNED, CERTAINLY BY THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, AND
THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE A DEMOCRAT.
THESE KIND OF HATEFUL
POLICIES -- I KNOW, YOUR SUPER BASE, YOUR BASE OF BASES, LOVES
HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION, THEY ARE NOT THE MAJORITY OF THIS
COUNTRY.
PEOPLE VOTED FOR TRUMP OUT OF INCREDIBLE FRUSTRATION
DEVOTED TOWARD THE ESTABLISHMENT, THAT DOESN'T MEAN
THEY ARE IN THE CORE BASE WHO HATES ALL PEOPLE AND DON'T WANT
THEM TO HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS.
IF YOU HAVE LOST SHELBY -- AND THEY
LOST THE HOUSE TOO, THE HOUSE A COUPLE DAYS AGO VOTED ON THIS.
THE INSANELY RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE HOUSE, THAT JUST
VOTED TO TAKE AWAY 23 MILLION PEOPLE'S HEALTH INSURANCE, WAS
LIKE, GOING AGAINST THE TRANS COMMUNITY IN THE MILITARY IS A
BRIDGE TOO FAR.
>>RIGHT NOW THE MILITARY IS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME
RECRUITING PEOPLE, THEIR NUMBERS ARE STARTING TO GO DOWN, PEOPLE
ARE VERY SKEPTICAL ABOUT JOINING -- LET ME READ YOU A QUICK QUOTE
FROM PHILIP CARTER, HE'S FROM THE CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN
SECURITY, HE SAYS --
>>COOL, YOU WANT TO BAN GROUPS OF
PEOPLE FROM JOINING THE
MILITARY AND SERVING THE COUNTRY?
HAVE AT IT, SEE HOW THAT GOES FOR YOU.
>>DON'T GET ME WRONG, THE MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS IN THE
HOUSE ARE STILL HATEFUL, THEY ONLY GOT 24 MEMBERS OF
REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE TO FLIP ON THAT VOTE AND VOTE WITH THE
DEMOCRATS TO ALLOW TRANS FOLKS TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY, AND
THEY LOST 214 TO 209 IN THE HOUSE VOTE.
ALL THE REST OF THE
REPUBLICANS WERE LIKE, WE DON'T BELIEVE IN EQUAL RIGHTS OR THE
CONSTITUTION, WE BELIEVE INSTEAD IN AN INTERPRETATION OF YAHWEH
THAT GAY PEOPLE AREN'T EQUAL TO STRAIGHT PEOPLE SO WE WILL
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM.
THAT WAS STILL THE OVERWHELMING
MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE HOUSE BUT LUCKILY ENOUGH
PEOPLE SWITCHED OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE FOR THEM TO LOSE THAT
VOTE.
EVEN HIS OWN PARTY IS NOT ON DONALD TRUMP'S SIDE
COMPLETELY, AT LEAST.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU GUYS, RUN ON THIS HATEFUL
STRATEGY, YOU WILL GET SLAUGHTERED IN 2020.